I've been blogging about the idea of a Little Green Server watching for companies who embrace the idea that smaller is better. I checked my blog and I wrote about the idea Intel Atom Servers in July 2008.

Sea Micro came out of its quiet period, and made quite a bit of noise.

The one I am waiting for next is ARM Servers.

From the momentum it looks like the idea of Intel Atom servers is going to be deployed.

SeaMicro in the News

June 14, 2010

Wall Street Journal: SeaMicro Tries to Rethink the Internet Server

Not many people start computer companies these days, with fierce competition and dog-eat-dog pricing making other businesses seem much more appealing. But SeaMicro is going for it, in an unusual way.

EE Times: Startup SeaMicro packs 512 Intel Atoms in server. SM10000 seen as first in wave of Atom, ARM-based servers

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Startup SeaMicro announced Monday (June 14) a server that packs 512 Intel Atom processors in a 10U chassis to deliver the same performance at a fraction of their power and space as systems using conventional server CPUs.

Coming out of stealth, SeaMicro is dispelling the Silicon Valley myth that you can’t innovate in hardware anymore. The startup is announcing today it has created a server with 512 Intel Atom chips that gets supercomputer performance but uses 75 percent less power and space than current servers.

SeaMicro, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based startup building a low-power server using Atom chips and its own specially designed silicon to manage the networking, has finally unveiled its hardware, and it’s pretty darn impressive.

The computer server industry may not sound like a hotbed for innovation to you, but SeaMicro thinks differently. It's just rocked the server world with a super-computer-like product that's smaller and more power-efficient than any rival's.

Startup SeaMicro is unveiling its SM10000 server, which takes advantage of the small and highly energy efficient Intel Atom processors and its own I/O virtualization technology to create a computing architecture that is highly scalable and drives down server power and space costs by as much as 75 percent over traditional systems.

Start-up SeaMicro has launched a green server based on Intel's power-sipping Atom processor. The company is backed by about $25 million in venture capital and a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.